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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1885.
The cholera is steadily diminishing in
•Spain. The highest daily* figure it has i
was 5,919 cases. It has now
<come down to less than 3,000, a falling off’'
•of two-fifths.
It is spreading in other quarters, espec
ially in France,'and seems gravitating to
Italy. It cannot make very great head
way before frost, which checks its onward
progress. We may consider that the
heaviest of the pestilence is over for this
w - Cholera is a hot-weather epi-
The lesson is a plain one that presents
L itself. All hands and all countries must
prepare during the winter for the invasion
aiext summer of the appalling disease.
The whole of Europe should adopt sani
tary precautions against the pestilence. It
will almost certainly resume its progress
unless anticipated.
And it behooves us in this country to
• ake steps to render its visit harmless. We
will certainly have to grapple with it. The
history of these diseases shows a steady
anarch. We can only conquer the invader
by sanitary preparation. The frightful
’desolation it has done in Spain should
warn us. ______
VERY NATURAE.
The Buffalo Evening Telegraph, of New
Work, has died a natural death.
The managers ran the sheet oi\the basis
•>f making it a scandal concern. They
. uxuriated in the fit name of Scripps—the
Scripps brothers. The Telegraph was un
clean enough for anybody. It made a
•specialty of untidy news, it hunted up
calumny as its staple matter, it invaded
xu’ivate.circles for unhealthy gossip, and
wholly disregarded personal feeling or pri
vate reputation.
These uncanny Scripps spent $65,000 in
heir venture and then had to suspend for
want of popular patronage.
This was a natural and proper result.
'The people of this country are not yet
ready for a newspaper diet of garbage.
A NEW DAILY.
The Daily Americus Republican comes
o us, the first issue dated September Ist.
It is a creditable paper and we wish it
•success.
Col. C. W. Hancock, the proprietor,
makes a right pathetic salutatory. In
? 854 he went to Americus, and he and his
paper, the Sumter Republican, and the
-Southwestern Railroad, made a simulta
neous appearance. He speaks of Ameri
cus then as “a straggling little hamlet
■nestling on the murky Muckalee.”
In 31 years he has lived to see the place
grown to 250 business houses and (>,OOO
nhabitants, with four cotton warehouses,
banks, factories, express and telegraph
facilities, an opera house and many
The transformation has been great and
bis paf>er has had a large agency in it.
4.1 VELY TIMES hOR MR. CLEVE
LAND.
United States Senator Cullom has given
>ut that the appointments of Democrats
by President Cleveland in the place of
Republicans, removed for “offensive par
tisanship, ” will be fought by the Repub
? ican Senators with unsparing vigor. This
s a significant declaration of war and in
licates that the Republicans mean to
‘make lively times next winter lor Mr.
/leveland.
Cullom says they will make war from
the word go on that issue. They will re
quire the administration to prove more
than ordinary political interest in the man
.removed.
• 3 APITOL CRAYONS.
Our morning neighbor in its neat constitu
tionals gets off occasisnally some srood things.
Here is one :
“Macon, the one city in the State that pos
sesses entire forests of gubernatorial timber.”
We have had occasion to mention the poetess,
Mrs. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. She is a Western
female of rhyming proclivities and a somewhat
sensational tendency. Her poems deal with lively
Tnatters and tackle unconventional subjects.
The latest rumor is that Mrs. Wilcox is to
publish a slashing novel, in which- she will rev
olutionize matters and introduce a series of top
ics unusual for the feminine pen to discuss in
veil-regulated books, and to be read by modest
people. The Chicago papers call vociferously
For the volume.
morning neighbor makes its entire writ-
reporters and all, take turns about in
.. tting up the column of Constitutionals. A
rood idea, as it puts new bloed constantly into
hat column with the stimulus of rivalry.
The Capitol has started a reporter’s column,
jut we found it so popular among them
• hat we bad to check up. Reporters, accustomed
o stick to hard fact, find it an intoxicating
• hange to revel in the arena of opinion and
MR jcnlation. Our bright fellows gave us enough
•.’ every day to fill a page. They over
*. »b ‘opportunity was so fascinating.
■ in them a showing along at inter-
F - *’i House on Peachtree street is be
r. ■».»’ as it was before, save that it is to
< 4 with a mansard roof.
are glad that its old form is mainly pre-
THE EVENING CAPITOL: ATLANTA. GA. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1885.
served. It is a typical Southern house as well
as an old landmark. It represents our pecul
iarly Southern architecture—a philosophical
architecture—the method, of wide halls and
broad encircling verandahs, of square rooms
and commodious avenues for air in every direc
tion.
By all means .let this typical Southern dwell
ing stand among the new-fangled residences of
modern times—a conspicuous example of the
breezy old comfort of the past in Southern
homes. Even its nobby new-style mansard
beaver hat will not wholly destroy its glorious
individuality. It spraddles overground in royal
old style, regardless of costly front —foot—age
and cosmopolitaixcrowdiiig.
It is a refreshing antithesis to some of the
labyrinthine cuddies of dwellings that were im
ported here early after the war under the de
lusion that we had winter eight months in the
year. Better its - broad, high acres of lumber
and column and airy openings and corridors
than the diminutive vestibules, the narrow
stairs, the little rooms and low chamber cells
that made up the more modern structures that
we borrowed from the architecture of a colder
climate.
CAPITOL SALMAGUNDI.
Ex-Minister Wasuburke, of Illinois, is in Boston.
General McClellan is said to want to come to the
Senate.
William Walter Phelps is traveling around on the
Pacific coast.
Secretary Manning is expected to return to Wash
ington on Saturday next.
Ex-Senator Thurman is very fond of whist, Imt he
won’t tolerate a dull partner.
Senator Sewell, of New Jersey, is expected to reach
home from his European trip.
Executive Secretary Pruden has returned to.his post
of duty at the White Hoase in Washington, brown as a
berry.
Secretary Lamar is the only Cabinet officer in Wash
ington, and says that he is going to stay. His health,
he asserts, is good.
Hon. Joseph Pulitzer, M. C. elect and editor of the
New YorkjWorld, has the magnanimity to decline thir
ty-two quarts of wheat offered him by the agricultural
department.
Alphonso Taft, of Ohio, ex-minister to Russia, was a
passenger on board the Servia, which arrived in New
York Sunday. His son, ex-collector Charles P. Taft, of
Cincinnati, met him.
Mlle. Rhea, speaking of Mary Anderson, says: “1
was greatly surprised when F saw her act. I had often
heard people praising her beauty more than her acting
and when 1 saw her in the “Hunchback,” jt was a r Ab
lation to me. 1 thought that heaven had endowed her
with all the qualities an artist could wish for. Her voice
is wonderful. America fs ‘prond <>f her and 1 can well
understand it.”
SHADOWS ALL.
BY PAIL HAMILTON HAYNE.
Shadows all I
From the birth robe to th- pall,
In this travesty of life,
Hollow, calm and fruitless strife,
M hatsoe’r the actors seem.
They are posturing in a dream :
Fates may rise, ami fates may fall.
Shadows are we, shadows all.'
From what sphere
Float these phantoms flickering here?
From what mvstic circle cast
In the dim a-onian Past ?
Many voices make reply,
But they only rise to die
Down tiie midnight mystery,
While earth's mocking echoes call.
Shadows, shadows, shadows all!
Shennaii*»» Dirge.
Philapelphia Times.
John Sherman’s keynote of the Ohio cam
paign-is still echoing over the country in lively
competition with some last century funeral
dirge.
A Frightful Prospect.
Philadelphia Times.
If the Western Union Telegraph Company
should by any possibility be compelled to pay
the two million dollars, as’asked by the Bankers
and Merchants’ Company, the amount of new
water which would be poured into its stock
would amaze even the persons who hold the
eighty millions and draw their quarterly divi
dends.
Republican View of Things.
Washington Republican.
The unsophisticated imagine they hear the
resonant roar of a great reform wave sweeping
across the face of the country. But they are
deceived. The sound which strikes on the pub
lic is but the ratting around of little men in big
places.
John Slier man’s African Tactics.
Louisville Times.
Henry M. Stanley says when you can neither
whip nor buy an African King, you can scare
him out of his boots with a ghost story. John
Sherman is applying this theory in Ohio, where
he has conjured up the ghost of the Confederacy
to frighten men into voting the Republican
ticket.
General Toombs’lll Health.
A Capitol man found General Toombs seated
in a rocking chair in his room in the Kimball
House, in very feeble health, awaiting the ar
rival, at any moment, of his physician, Dr.
Logan. Though it was the first of September,
ami very warm inside and on the streets, still
the windows were down and a coal fire burning
brightly in the open grate of his room. There
was scarcely a movement visible in his form as
he reclined back in the rocking chair. Having
asked him a few questions relative to the pro
ceedings to-morrow, and especially to some re
marks of his own on the occasion, he replied that
“he was very sorry that he could not do so, but
my physician said he has positively prohibited
me to do so as I feel very ill. lam very old, be
ing over 75 years of age, now, and so poor in
health that I don’t know whether I will ever
leave this room alive. My time on earth is up,
and I am ready to d-opoff'any day.”
You have been a personal witness, General,
to a great deal of America’s history, and espe
cially to the history of tha South.
“ 1 have,” said he. “I have known personally
nearly all the Governors of Georgia up io the
present time, and most of them have been mv
intimate friends.” “A brief review of their poli
tics, phases of government, laws, personal his
tory, private life, etc., would be very interest
ing generally, not only for American history
and the history of the South in particular, but
would be interesting to your many friends, as
coming to them through you who had been
their intimate friend, and, from your public life,
well acquainted with them.” “I think it would,”
said he. “I had many dealings with the gov
ernors of Georgia and with the leading men sf
the country and especially of the South during
my 25 years of public life in the Senate and
House of Representatives.”
“Have you a record, general, of the chief
events of your public life and of all the import
ant men that you were acquainted with and of
whom connections, relations and political lite
you formed such an important parts”
“I have no general record of them in the
United States, or nothing more than some frag
ments or headings here and there,” said he.
“Butl remember the most of them.” You must
at that rate, general, have a wonderful memory.”
“I have,” said he. “f remember manv inci
dents and political events that occurred in and
since the time of Napoleon.” ,
“Did you intend to give some of them in
your oration speech, if you delivered it ?”
“I did—a few of them,” said he, “or as far as
they were connected with the south.”
“Well, general, as speaking is somewhat
troublesome to you in your present state of ill
health, I won’t infringe further on your time,”
and thanking him, len.
Don’t buy a railroad ticket till vou see Harry
Lynan, 4 Kimball House and 38 Wall street.
OUR GEORGIA EDITORS.
Quaint Notions and Witty Quips of
Craft.
N. P. T.
In Georgia the muscadines are ripening, and
the toothsome ’possum is almost fat enough tojl
be served up to order. It is thus that we /«4
tract pleasure from winter’s icy breath. *
JOE HARRIS.
Connecticut school boards will not employ
school-ma’ms unless they agree to remain sin
gle for a year. As a matter of fact there are
few Connecticut school-ma’ms who do not re
main single more than several’years.
The Russian Czar gives his provincial sub
jects religion by merely issuing a proclamation.
After awhile some of 4iis faithful subjectswill
issue a dynamite bulletin, so to speak,
the Czar will wish he had some real religion.
BILL MOORE.
The cool autumnal breezes early this morning
produced thoughts of oysters * and quail on
toast, to say nothing of last winter’s overcoat.
HARRY EDWARDS.
News comes that the sorghum crop is safe.
’Tis well. Sorghum and cornbread furnish a
fine substrata patriotism.
As the business season has opened and the
Legislature has had its frolic, the people rea
sonably expect a speedy adjournment.
The cyclone has done its work of terror and
destruction, and now the country is appalled by
the besom of the trade issue. The artificial al
most equals the natural horror.
ALBERT LAMAR.
If the members of the Legislature will insist
Upon taken mileage from the State and free
passes from the railroads, they should have the
common decency of giving their friends and
constituents the mileage to travel on in the place ,
of loaning or renting them the free passes.
tfOL. ESTILL.
It appears that ’the Ohio RepublicSfi
will have to employ a corps of barkers to fur 7 ®
nish them with a supply of fresh and genuine
bloody shirts. The old dilapidated garments of
last year are no good.
THE CARTERSVILLE AMERICAN MAN.
The Democratic outlook in Virginia is said
to be bright. With the Mahone gang on one
side, and the gallant Lee on the other, how
could it be other-Wise?
Oolitic limestone will make a better capitol
building than political limestone.
Now if some astute senator would introduce a
bill taxing red-headed people, his name and
fame would wake the echoes along the archways
of time.
GEORgTaTg LEANINGS.
Rome is making arrangements for Sam Jones.
E. A. Mihers, of Marietta, burned himself
casting syrup mills.
The Americus bigamist.—He has been known
as Roxana O. Duweis, Roxana 0. Deweis, I).
Laßose, R. O. D. Laßose.—Americus Republi
can.
We learn that an Indian Company is at■ work
at Poulan, Worth county, erecting two large
plaining mills. They will have a capacity of
GOO,OOO feet a day.—Albany News.
The feeling in favor of Hon. W. H. Mattox,
for Congress, to succeed our present able con
gressman, Mr. Reese, is growing strong, strong- j
er, strongest.—Banner-Watchman.
Mr. N. Henderson, living about two miles i
from Fairburn, is in possession of a young squir- 1
rel that nurses a cat. It is doing well, and its i
unnatural step-mother cares for it tenderly.
The survey of the Columbus and Rome ex- j
tension from Greenville to Fairburn began Fri- I
day. Mr. McDonald, chief engineer of the !
tral railroad, is in charge of the survey cprps- |
Referring to the congressional J
formant stated that Judge Lawson, of Eatontok
would in all probability be brought out promi- •
nently, and that his candidacy would develop
many friends in the country,—Macon Telegraph.
Rev. John W. Acidt, late president of the La-
Grange Female. College, and Regent-elect of itiel
great Southwejftern University, at Georgetown,
Texas, accompanied by his family, left La- j
Grange this morning for his new and grand field
of labor.
The peach evaporator on yesterday closed for
the season, alter a successful run “of several
weeks. They bought and used over 15,000 bush
els of peaches, making in the neighborhood of
110,000 pounds of evaporated fruit, being some
20,000 pounds more than they made altogether
last year.—Griffin News.
Referring to the obstructions which were j
placed on the Rome railroad last Sunday, the >
Courier says that a young white girl has been
arrested for the offense, and it is said there is a
sufficiency of proof against her. It is said that
she is in the habit ot taking great freaks, and
that upon one occasion she attempted to set a
stack of oats on fire.
Judge B. 11. Bigham, R. S. McFarlin and C.
M. Burke, of LaGrange, have been in the city
for the purpose of purchasing from the Colum-'
bus and Rome Railroad Company that portion
of the old North and South railroad which was
graded from a point a few miles south of La-
Grarge at intervals up to Carrollton. They
succeeded in making the purchase, and left for
home yesterday.—Col. Enquirer-Sun.
K. I€. Y* JI. €. A.
The Kiiterlaii>iiient a Success Last
Night.
The R. R. Y. M. C. A. last evening hud a full j
house to hear the monthly exorcises.
This programme was carried out:
PROGRAMME.
Song—“ Who Among the Mighty?” Male
chorus.
Solo—Scotch ballad, Mary of Argyle, Mr.
John Warneck.
Recitation—“ New Church Organ,” the little
Misses Maudie Stokes and Rose Hubner.
Song—“ Katy Did,” Mr. J. D. Dodd and
daughters.
Recitation—“A Face Against the Pane,” MissJi
Porter. ,
Declamation—“ The Famine,” Master I
Schmidt.
Harmonica quartette, Messrs. Tommy Waits, f
Wm. Waits, Thomas Boyle and Charlie Bowen. ;
Recitation—“ Curfew Shall Not Ring To- ;
night,” Miss Jessie Turner.
Character impersonation—“ Trip To-morrow,” i
Mrs. C- W. Hubner, Ida Hubner, Mr. George :
Downs.
Recitation—“ Shadows,” Miss Maud Shirley. ;
Reading (new)—Replv to “Shadows,” Mr. L. !
P. Hills.
Piano solo—Overture, Caliph de Bagdad, bv '
Ford, Miss Minnie Lallatte.
Son--“ You are not the Man for Me,” Colonel i
and Mrs. C. W. Hubner.
Recitation—A Fisherman’s Wife,” Miss Fan- I
nie Bird. J
Song—“ Good night,” male chorus.
These entertainments are getting to be a
social feature of the day, and this one last even
ing was pronounced a gem in every respect, j
The performers did themselves full justice, while .
the audience was delighted.
Mr. John Warneck, by request, sang “Mr. j
O’Sullivan” spiritedly.
Dr. Eddy will lead the gospel meeting Sun- I
da - r - <l
East Atlanta citizens should go to Roughton I
& Co.’s, 254 or 522 Decatur street, for cheap '
things.
Mclntyre Ac Heath’s Minstrels.
To-night this remarkable organization will
appear in Atlanta. The Philadelphia Daily
News thus appreciates them:
“Mclntyre & Heath’s Minstrels opened the
New Central Theatre last night for the season,
and were greeted with an overflowing house.
As a spectacular minstrel troupe it is one of the
best companies organized, containing three fea
tures at least that will commend it to the amuse
ment-loving people and give it a good reputation
‘on the road.’ These features are the marvelous
actingof Delbauer and Geyer in the frog and
clown act, the wonderful shadowgraph artists,
the Branham Brothers, and the Clipper Qnai
tette’s 'life-like negro impersonations. Mcln
tyre’s ‘wench’acts are excruciatingly funny.”
Clicnp Hailroad Tickets
To all points. Harry Lynan, 4 Kimball Honsi, j
and 38 Wall street.
OLD FACTS!
y-;®' of Sworn Certificates
f the Information of
Advertisers!
The Eyeing Capitol Prints 2,000 More
Copiai each Day than any Evening
- in the City!
FIGURET DO NOT AND WILL NOT LIE!
4
In these days of great representations to ad
vertisers regards the circulation ot the me
dium pi (sen ted, and knowing full well that
there is nothing like certified statements to
serve as'S^ nc^ers L) Uie representations made
by The Capitol men as to The Evening Capi
tol’s circulation. We present herewith copies
of affidavits of men whose sworn truth and in
tegrity its known and unquestioned.
We believe that the value of The Capitol as
an A 1 -advertising medium will be apparent
when Lite affidavits are read and understood.
were brought out not only as
cluwjßjout because from the fact that no even-
in the city ever did have or represent-
T «wer 3,800 subscribers before, and
'> c < a■. our statement of 5,207 seemed on that
very large. These sworn certifi-
eliable men seemed very proper if they
were iwt necessary.
Atlanta, Ga., August 11, 1885.
Believing that the age of The Capitol makes
its statement of circulation seem almost incred
ible and in order that the cold, simple facts and
e ' r culation may be presented in a
criticism and doubt,l hereby cer
tify vve have on our books 5,207 actual paying
sut>sc> l^ers > 1,500 of which, in round numbers,
are by mail and 3.800 are delivered in
the pf Atlanta. We print from 100 to 1,000
pauergteMlUbh day, extra to accommodate the
sab > "he counter.
Y Chas. S. Atwood,
liim/ ind Business Manager The Eve-
ITOL CO.
Aid subscribed to before me this 10th
day \ , gust, 1885.
John J. Woodside,
Notary Public Fulton county , Ga.
Atlanta, Ga.
| A-v' v certify that I sell The Evening
■ UUi i* Company the paper for their daily
issu<: tliat. they never buy less than 5,500
i corn# day. From what I know personally
J 1 Ason to believe that they print all the
YAF"' ‘ jey buy from me each day.
4 Jno. R. Wilkinson,
t Paper and Stationery Dealer.
S'i d subscribed to before me this 10th
rust, 1.885.
y - John J. Woodside,
Notary Public Fulton county, Ga.
Atlanta, Ga.
itol is printed on our press, and for
th of same we get paid per copy printed,
eby take pleasure in certifying that not
leps? than 5,250 copies, actual count, has been
priilted on any day, and that 5-6 of the time
! mor e copies, actual count, have been
iq>riUe I daily.
J. H. & W. B. Seals,
Publishers Sunny South.
Sworn and subscribed to before me, this 10th
day of August, 1885.
’ John J. Woodside,
“|r Notary Public, Fulton County, Georgia.
M
Atlanta, Ga.
I he?eb y certify that I do not print less than
5,25(j copies, actual count, each day of The
Evening Capitol, and that the usual run is
5,500 or upwards, actual count.
R. C. Turner,
Pressman Evening Capitol.
Sworn and subscribed to before me this 10th
j day of August, 1885.
John .1. Woodside,
Not. Pub. Fulton Co., Ga.
i A full size Splasher, pure linen, all ready
| stamped, only 25 cents, at the Art Needlework
j Store, corner Peachtree and Walton.
A ISatfiiitf Metaphor.
Louisville Times.
The New York Tribune and its Chicago name
sake think that Clay is no more to be compared
to Blaine than the phosphorecent light emitted
from the business end of a lightning bug to the
glorious aurora pf men. Such is taste.
Grumbling Over the Meat.
There is considerable complaint in the city
rprer the very tough meat to be obtained in
i many of the markets. A few of the markets,
j however, have very choice meats, and among
I them that of Echols & Richards, at 86 Peach-
I tree, is noted for its nice, tender cuts, roasts
j and loins.
Harrv Lvnan, cheap rates to all points.
The Time To Build.
Now is exactly the time to build; lumber is
j cheap, sash, doors and blinds are cheap, and
• the cautious man will take advantage of the
j low prices on building material, and come to me
and see really how cheap he can bnv.
W. Bell,
25 t lvy street.
A Word, to Advertising Patrons.
We would also take occasion right here to say
j that we shall publish daily’ the exact figures of
■ our circulation so that the advertiser may know
■ exactly what to depend on. It is useless to
■ print affidavits, as we have given our word that
• the above is the exact truth,but we will say that
. it will afford us pleasure to give affidavits of
I Col. Seals, in whose establishment we have
rooms, of our pressman, and of any member of
The Capitol force. Our press room and sub
scription books are likewise open to inspection,
and we earnestly invite you to call. The Even
ing Capitol shall be the best local advertising
medium in the city. We have given our word
for it end it shall be done.
Central Property for Sale.
No. 30 Garnet street, a 7-room dwelling on a
very pretty and valuable 1 t, 60x90x115 feet; in
a Few steps of the Synagogue, and finely situa
ted for a home. Excellent water, good neigh
borhood, good out-houses ; near the center of the
city, and convenient to churches, schools street
cars and all the business portion of the city.
Will increase rapidly in value. Price. $3,800
i $1,500 cash, balance $25 per mouth, 8 per cent.
, interest. Frierson & Soott,
1 No. 1 8. Pryor St.
Doubting Doctor Dumfounded.
SWIFT’S SPECIFIC.
Triumph Over Cancer -- No
Longer Room for Doubt.
i
Something over eight months ago one
of the prominent physicians in Atlanta
was called upon to examine a lady who
was suffering with a cancer on her face.
It was of some seven years standing. It
was exceedingly angry in appearance and
very painful, involving the nose and nasal
organs. The physician had always re
garded skin cancer as incurable. The
Swift’s Specific Company had evidences
sufficient to believe that their remedy
would cure cancer, and hence requested
the physician in question to make a criti
cal examination of the case before him,
as he had determined not to believe until
he saw one cured under his own observa
tion. After an extended and careful ex
amination he pronounced it a skin (or
epithelioma) cancer, and declared that if
Swift’s Specific could cure that case it
could cure any case of cancer that had
ever come under his eye.
Last Tuesday the lady, Mrs. Joicie A.
McDonald, who lives near Atlanta, came
into the office of Swift’s Specific Company
and reported herself well. The physician
above referred to had watched the case
with considerable interest, and some
three weeks ago had examined the lady,
and, in his judgment, pronounced her
perfectly cured. He is now completely
convinced that Swift’s Specific is a success
in the treatment of cancer, and does not
hesitate to so recommend.
The following is the statement of the
lady:
For seven years past I have been suffer
ing with a cancer on my face. At first it
gave me but little trouble, and I paid very
little attention to it. After a time it be
gan to increase in size, and also to pain
me. The simple remedies were applied
to alleviate the pain, but J was not con
scious of its true nature, thinking it only
a sore of malignant nature and would soon
pass away under the ordinary treatment.
In this I was mistaken, as the place con
tinued to grow and extended into my
nose, from whence came a yellowish dis
charge very 'offensive in character. It
was also inflamed and annoyed me a great
deal. About eight months ago I was in
Atlanta, at the bouse of a friend, Mrs. C.
D. 11., who observed the condition of my
face, and so strongly recommended the
use of Swift’s Specific that I determined
to make an effort to procure it. In this I
was successful, and began its use. The
influence of the medicine at first was to
somewhat aggravate the sore, but soon
the inflammation was allayed, and I be
gan to improve after the first few bottles.
My general health has greatly improved.
I am stronger and am able to do any kind
of work. The cancer of my face began to
decrease and the outer to heal, until there
is not a vestige of it left—only a little sear
marks the place where it had been. lam
devoutly grateful for this wonderful relief,
from what everybody thought would be
certain death. lam ready to answer all
questions relative to this cure.
Mrs. Joicie A. McDonald.
Atlanta, Ga., August 11, 1885.
Those who are interested- in this case
can learn the name of the above physician
by applying at the office of the Swift Spe
cific Co., corner Butler and Hunter streets.
A Few Facts From tiot ham.
Mr. M. C. O’Driscoll, 158 Madison
street, New York City, under date of Au
gust 10th, writes:
“I have taken Swift's Specific—S. S. S.
—for rheumatism and pimples on my face,
and it has cured botl . It is the best tonic
and appetizer I have over taken. A dose
of it never fails to make me eat aWlearty
meal under any circumstances.”
Mr. Dan Sealey, No. 4(5 Railroad ave
nue, Jersey City, New Jersey, under date
of August 7th, makes the following state
ivent:
“In March of last year (1884) I contract
ed blood poison, and being in Savannah,
Ga., at the time I went into the hospital
there for treatment. I suffered very much
from rheumatism at the same time. I did
not get well under the treatment there,
nor was I cured by any of the usual means.
I have now taken seven bottles of Swift’s
Specific (S. S. S.) and am sound and well.
It drove the poison out through boils on
the skin.”
Front Tennessee.
Judge R. S. Bradford, who was cured
some time ago of a cancer, writes from his
home, Tiptonville, Tenn., under date of
August 8:
“My cancer is entirely gone, leaving
only a very little scar. There is a gentle
man in this vicinity who was past going
with rheumatism, who, at my suggestion,
took 8. S. S. He is now entirely cured,
and is active and able to attend to all
kinds of business. There are a great many
in this community using Swift’s Specific,
with much satisfaction and to their great
I relief.”
Caution.
Consumers should not confuse our Spe
cific with the numerous imitations, sub
stitutes, potash and mercury mixtures
which are gotten up to sell, not on their
own merit, but on the merit of our rem
edy. An imitation is always a fraud and
a cheat, and they thrive only as they can
steal from the article imitated.
Treatise on blood and skin diseases
mailed free.
For sale by all druggists.
The Swift Specific Co.,
Drawer 3, Atlanta, Ga.
RHEUMATISM ROU FED-
A CASE FROM SCRII’EN COUNTY.
In the editorial columns of the Tele
phone, published at Sylvania, the county
site of Scriven county, Ga., in the number
bearing date August 14 the editor, Col.
Win. L. Matthews, Jr., has the following
in reference to a remarkable cure of rheu
matism by Swift’s Specific:
We know a gentleman in this county
who six months ago was almost a hopeless
eripple from an attack of rheumatisni. He
could scarcely hobble across a room, used
crutches, and said himself that he had
llt|le if any hope of ever recovering. We
saw him in our town last week walking
about as lively as any other man, and in
the finest health and spirits. Upon our
inquiry as to what, had worked such a
wofiderful change in his condition he re
plied that Swift’s Specific had cured him.
He said he was on the eve of starting for
the Hot Springs in search of relief, but was
persuaded by one of his neighbors to try
Swift’s Specific, and after using one and a
half dozen bottles he has been transformed
from a miserable cripple to a happy,
healthy man. He is one of our most
worthy and successful citizens, and is none
other than Mr. E. B. Lambert.
ASlubborii Case of Scrofula.
I have been afflicted with scrofula from
my infancy, and in consequence have al
ways been a frail and delicate creature. I
might truthfully say that I was raised
chiefly on mercury and potash. These
remedies for the time being would dry up
the fearful ulcers, with which 1 suffered,
but they would return with greater vio
lence. 1 was the merest shadow as to
form and person. My digestion was all
deranged, and my existence was most
wretched. Everything that could be done
for me was done, but no permanent bene
fit was derived. At last a great tumor
came on my neck below the left ear. It
increased in size until my head was forced
to the right shoulder, and in this ungainly
and uncomfortable position I was com
pelled to carry my head. The doctors de
cided that it was there to stay as long as
life continued, and for many years it did
remain. In March, 1884, at the sugges
tion of Colonel John Traylor, I was in
duced to try Swift’s Specific. My system
responded to the medicine promptly, and
I began to improve from almost the first
bottle. That fearful tumor has all disap
peared, and every appearance of the dis
ease has left my. person except a small,
hard lump on the right side of my neck,
and that is disappearing rapidly. From a
fragile little girl I have developed into as
healthy and rqjjust young'lady as there is
in the neighborhood. Swift’s Specific is
the only remedy that has ever given me
any permanent relief, and I am in better
health and weigh more than I ever did in
my life before. My old friends scarcely
recognize me since this wonderful change
has been wrought in my appearance. My
gratitude is unbounded for what this med
icine has done for me.
Miss Tommie Embry.
Lagrange, Ga., May 14, 1885..
Mexican Typical Orchestra.
I was afflicted with blood poison in its
worst stage. All remedies failed, but after
using Swift’s Specific according to direc
tions, lam proud to say I am cured. I
am to-day sound, and have no trace of
having been otherwise.
E. P. Myerson,
Manager Mexican Typical Orchestra.
New York, August 18.
Entirely Cured.
Two years ago I contracted blood poison.
I went immediately under treatment by a
physician, but I continued to grow worse.
A friend of mine advised me to take 8. S.
S. 1 did so, ami it cured me entirely, as
1 have never since then seen the least
dence of it. Charles Walker,
711 Allen street, New York City.
New York, August 18, 1885.
A Friendly Fetter.
Fifth Avbm e Hotel, New York, Au
gust 1, 1885. —To the Swift Specific Com
pany—Gentlemen : Your remedy is cer
tainly one of the great discoveries of the
nineteenth century. For eradicating blood
poison it has no equal.
A friend who had been a great sufferer
from that disease, contracted during the
war, you will be glad to know has, by the
use of your remedy, cleansed his system
entirely of that and mercurial rheumatism
so that his skin and tongue and breath
are as pure as a child’s without, the least
taint.
He desires me to say this to you, and to
thank you with all the sincerity of a grate
ful heart and healed body for giving poor,
frail humanity so effective a remedy for a
disease hitherto regarded utterly incura
ble. Let every one similarly afflicted take
your remedy and they surely will be well
again.
In his behalf, and to encourage others,
I gladly write and sign this.
Yery respectfully,
LaFayette Sykes.
Caution.
Consumers should not confuse our Spe
cific with the numerous imitations, sub
stitutes, potash and mercury mixtures,
which are gotten upto sell, not on their
own merits, but on the merit of our rem
edy. An imitation is always a fraud and
a cheat, and they thrive only as they can
steal from the article imitated.
For sale by all druggists.
Treatise on Blood and Skin Diseases
mailed free. ’
The Swift Si’EciFiQ
Drawer 3, Atlantu
157 West 23d street, New York.